QENDIL, Defence Regions of Medya, — The Kurdish Defence Forces (HPG) released a press release statement to indicate that the Turkish military operations in Kurdistan, which has been consistently going on, will not be unresponsive.
HPG warned Turkey for its military operation in which a Kurdish guerrilla lost his life. “The freedom struggle in Kurdistan is undergoing through an important historical period. Our movement extended the ceasefire as a result of our leaders suggestions and opinions in line with initiated dialogues. We are aware of a need to approach with great sensitivity to this process which has a strategic determines,” the statement said.
HPG reiterates that “all our forces, are in a legitimate defence position as Armed Forces, and are acting within this line. However, the military operations that carried out by the forces belong to the State of Turkey partially reduced and the canon attacks continuously carried out on the Defence Regions of Medya. As a result of these attacks, a friend of us name Dilsad have been martyred in the area of Xakurke,” the statement elaborated.
The statement ended by underlining that “these attacks carried out against our forces and the Defence Regions of Medya is an answer given by the government to the process which started by our movement, and must be known that we will use our legitimate defence right against these continuing attacks. It is important for all the circles to show great awareness and develop a response against these continuing attacks.”
HPG is the military wing of Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) founded in 1973 as the result of the continuous and systematic oppressions and the denial of the Kurdish nation by the occupying powers of Kurdistan.
The PKK took up arm in 1984 since all the possible political and diplomatic means applied for 11 years in between 1973-84 proved exhausted. The PKK however declared its first unilateral ceasefire in 1993 since it believed the arm struggle had hit its targets. Since 1993 to date the PKK has declared 8 unilateral ceasefires and called upon Ankara to solve the Kurdish problem in a peaceful democratic way, but the Turkish military operations in Kurdistan keep going.
After 1954, apart from the Korean War in1949-52 and the invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the Turkish Army operations have continued to be exclusively against the Kurds.